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CRADLE SONG. 0 lullaby, my baby. The bee has gone tc sleep; The dew is on the clover and peace is on the deep, While mother sings above thee a little slum ber song, And prays beneath her pinging. God savt my babe from wrong. 0 sleep, my baby, sleep. 0 lullaby, my baby. The stars shine overhead To light the way of angels who come about tby bed To keep their watch above thee until the morning breaks, And from the dreams they brought liim my little darling wakes. 0 sleep, my baby, sleep. 0 lullaby, my baby; take thou this goodnight kiss, And may it tell thee, darling, what love a mother's is. Take thou this kiss to dream of the while I breathe a prayer That God Who gave shall have thee forever ' in His care. O sleep, my baby, sleep. ?EdenE. Rexford, in Youth's Companion. The Avenger of Her Sex. It was a day of perspiration. Heat and humidity had joined forces early in the morning, and before noon humanity was routed, and waved the wilted handkerchief of capitulation. A young man entered a down-town elevated station as though he owned it. No one who watched him would hare hppn siirnri<5pd lifld hp disnlntwl n niorlit. j j?j - ?a,? key to the ticket peddler's booth; but he did not. He haughtily cast down the half-dime of passage and joined the limp and draggled -wayfarers without. Had he not been so aggressive in his bearing, he would have been insignificant. He was very slight; he was short; he was narrow-chested. His shoulders were drooping continuations of his arms. Sparse light hair tanned his upper lip, which was bracketed by a supercilious smile. Through gold-rimmed glasses his little eyes squinted inquisitively. His light summer coat floated unbuttoued in the breeze, as if enlarging his presence. His waist was girded by a broad, black sash. Arthur Chum pDey was his name?Mr. Cbumpnev, of New York City, as he often proudly proclaimed it. Time had dccd, ana not ioui years siuce, wnen Artie Chumpney, Deacon Chumpney's lad, at Chumpuey's Four Corners, Delaware County, had sufficiently individualized him. But a maternal uncle had wrought a woDdrous change. He had transplanted this rural squash, and behold! a city pickle had come forth. A real estate agent's clerk has to be spry; and ere the warts had faded from his hands Arthur thought that he "knew it all." No one could "do" him; he was playing ball every time! Yet at the 4'Corners" he had been deemed "a pore sperited coot that never could donuthin' an'never would." "He's afeard of his own shadder; an' if you Bpeak up peart or auddent to him, he blushes awful, he's so ashamed of hisself." Strange, that environment should so affect one's nature. And yet, in the menagerie trade, a leopard is a leopard the world over, and must be sold for spot cash. Arthur entered a car and took the only unoccupied seat. It was beside a woman who was nearer to caps than to frizzes, and who knew it. There was no artificial girlishness about her. She was gaunt and dark and sharp featured. Her nose was long and piercing, like a double barreled probe; her cye3 asked a question, and then answered it definitely; her arms were anthropoid in length and articulation; her hands,, which mittens caressed, made one crawl to look at them. In one of them she bore a reticule. Her brow was bound by a green veil. She alone seemed unconscious of the weather. Heat and humidity, when t'ney had encountered her, had shrugged their shoulders dubiously, and had paased by on the other side. She gave Arthur one penetrating glanre, which her nose seemed to say was quite sufficient. "Humph!" she ejaculated, and it wrinkled contemptuously. So, too, he had looked but once to be satisfied. "A curious old jay," he muttered to himself, as he twirled the sparse hairs into skeleton shape. He lolled as comfortably and as indolently as the sticky seat would permit, his back half turned against her, his legs outstretched ^ in the aisle, his open coat flapping upon either side. He adjusted hi3 glasses,and takiug a newspaper from his pocket began to assimilate the gossip of the day. The train rolled,it rattled,it squeaked, it stopped. There was an influx of femininity; heated, wearied, glowing femininity, clad in the calico of labor and bearing the basket of economy. They Bvrayed and jolted through the aisle; they hung on thestrap3,as the squeaking ceased and the rolling and rattling recomracBCcd. Here and there men, keen and alert in expression, yet M-hosc eyes said that Jmguui?stliriandliness were not anjagoirtSticTsprang to their feet with ^"tJatural chivalry. But Arthur did not ' move. One glance he cast, to see if he might detect the bonnet of luxury. One glance sufficed. He stretched himself yet more arrogantly and continued his educational process. "Mind your eyes!" he angrily squealed at a wan woman, with a shawl and a baby mutually involved, who had stumbled over his feet. "Do you think that patent leathers grow on trees?" The wan woman clung more closely to the indeterminate bundle, but answered not a word. She was used to unkind speech; it reminded her of home and husband. But she of the gaunt elbow upon his left flushed and bustled as though heat and humidity had regained courage, and had actually attacked her. She prolonged a tingor; she tappel Arthur on the shoulder. "Youug man," she cried in buzz-saw tones, "aren't you going to give this poor woman your seat?" Ue stared in amazement over his glasses "I never do," he drawlcjl; "not if I know myself. What do you take me for? Stand vourself. if you want to; you ought to kuow how by this time. Ah, do; i've cut my eye-teeth, old lady." He lolled more extended!}- than before; his coat flapped more widely. His eyes and nose and chin were eagerly engaged with the details of a fashionable wedding. He saw, lie heard nothing. The indignant female gave a snort of dcfiance, it uiay be of warning. "He ncvor does!" she muttered. "I couldn't find a better subject if I went to Harlem." > One deft, rapid motion did that spatulated band make from tbc reticulc to the side-pocket of the flapping coat of the unconscious Arthur, who was mentally personatiug the best man. Then she sprang to her feet and gave lier seat to i the wan woman, the shawl and the baby. More jostlings, more scramblings, more rollings. Heat and humidity returned from the pursuit and ravaged the bodies of the vanquished. Arthur still stretched . himself and read. The keen, alert business men swayed easily with the motion; the wearied women exhibited the centrilugal force of each curve. The gaunt . and angular female, with one hand upraised graspiug the strap, stood as rigid as the Goddess of Liberty enlightening the world. But as the rolling intermittently slackened and the squeaking increased, she 1 suddenly released her hold aud fumbled through her reticule; then she uttered a series of shrill screams, which startled the alert business men, the baby in the shawl, the gyrating women, and the locomotive, which hitherto had deemed itself proficient in that line. It re led . Arthur from the wedding breakfast, where he had been doing the elegant to an American duchess. "Oh, I'm robbed, I'm robbed!" she cried. "And by that bold, bad man." And she pointed full the doubly-articulated finger of accusation at the agitated Mr. Chumpney. Immediately there was a confused din which drowned the squeaking of a stopping at a station. The alert business men, the guards, the station-men pressed forward. The debilitated women screamed surprisingly, and dropped their baskets. The beshawled .baby doubled its fists, grew red in the face, like the sun, and yelled. The angular female still vociferated in tin-horn tones: "It's him! Don't let him escape! Catch him, kill him, the rascal, the thief 1 Oh, my precious earnings I" "What have you lost, madam?" inquired one of the aforesaid representatives of commercial activity. "My all! My pocket-book? Oh, don't let him escape!" she incessantly piped, like a siren in a fog. "Come out of this!" shouted the guard, laying a heavy hand on Arthur's shoulder. "Oh, the rascal," "the blackguard," "the thievish judel" "Search him!" "Oh, he's a slick article!" resounded upon ail sides. Despite heat and humidity the excited crowd surged through the aisles and out upon the platform, following the important cruard. the tremblintr Arthur, the spare, swarthy, and sibilant female, and unanimously crying, "Search him! Search him!" The guard plunged his grimy hand into the pocket of the widely-flapping coat and drew forth a purse. He held it above the pressing throng. "That's mine; myall!" the virgin accuser cried, reaching her simian finger an amazing distance toward it. "Excuse me, madam," interposed the guard. "That must go with this 'ere bloke to court, and you with him. There will be a perlice along presently. I seed one come out of the saloon beyant." And sure enough, a blue-coated refugee from English tyranny now forced his vigorous j shoulders through the crowd, i "Phat'sthis? Thavin', is it? Ikn^w yez well," he ejaculated, grasping the collar of the widely-flapping coat. "Come along wid me!" He took the purse in his other hand, which flourished the club of authority. He dragged his victim through the jeering throng, down the stairs, followed by the angular female, who stalked after them like one of the Fates released temporarily from the thread factory. The squeaking increased and dwindled, the rolling began. Attended by heat and humidity, the alert business men, the wan woman, the baby and the shawl hastened away, as if dreading the vengeance of a score of irate trains, which had been thus delayed by crime and its punishment. In tha meantime, what had become of the arrogance which had so completely envoloped Arthur upon his entrance into the train? At the tir3t word of accusation it had faded away like a tissue paper suit, in a tmnieal storm. The four vears x ? ? rolled back. Again he was a barefootod boy at the corners, afraid of his own shadow, blushing for very shame of his own existence. He could not speak; his teeth chattered from trembling; his face flamed as though those fork-like fingers had raked it; the horns of his immaculate collar drooped, starchless like his backbone. His broad, black sash seemed an emblem of mourning for his own demise. He shrank in terror from the crowd. Would they kill him? Welcome the Tambs, the Island, Sing SiDg, electrocution, if he might only escape from those horrible, threatening faces. But thou?h he was thus passive, Policeman X, who had him in charge, did not choose that he should appear so. Not He had a record to make, and here was his opportunity. So once and again he gave him a forward thrust, and then?ejaculating, "Ye wud, wud yez?" ?a mighty drag back again, to the admiration of the passers-by, who aftervard astonished dinner tables by accounts of a terrific struggle which they bad witnessed between u burly ruffian aud one of our city's defenders. " The grim and gaunt female stalk :d behind this tableau of justice for several V?lrvr.lrc tVion qVip onrl 1 ?? ? ? t ) ? finally she stopped short. But her desertion was unnoticed. She watched the pair as they struggled forward into the distance. A sardonic smile revealed the artificiality of her teeth as she did so. "A good morning's work!" she exclaimed. "I must go and report progress." She hailed a convenient cab. She gave instructions, in which possibly the word "Sorosis" might have been distinguished. She was rapidly driven i away. Arthur and his exultant captor, unI suspicious that this "dea ex machina" ; had thus eloped, reached the court house. A roundsman stood upcu the stoop. "What hev ye there, Mike?" he familiarly asked the officer. "A snake teef. Wau of the wust of 'cm. I've been on to him this twelvemontV' "He looks it," was the consol'ng comment. They -went before the committing magistrate. He was a red-faced, squatty man, seated behind a yellow-grained desk, and enveloped as to the neck with a smudgy handkerchief. Upon the desk, | beside his feet, were an ink-stand and 1 I a sticky book. [ j , _ , 'k "What is it. officer?" he queried, unwinding the handkerchief. ' A case of larceuy from the pusson, sor." "Are you the complainant?" j "Oi nin, sor." "Then you were present at the commission of this offence?" "No, yer ahnor, no more thin yerself. How cud I be? 'Twas ou the illevated train, yer ahnor, above me bate. Shure, I'm no thrack-walker." "Silence, sirl "Where is the person from whom the property was taken!" "Oh, shure, a long, lane famale in black, for all the wurruld like the Witch of Endy, was following us but a moment sence. 'Twas she it was Irom lie tuK it." "I must discharge this man. There is no evidence on which to hold him." "Phat, yer ahnor I "Whin he sazed her ! by the two wrists and wrastled it from her like the thavin' blaggard that he is, shure!" "Did you see him do it?" "Av coorse not, yer ahnor; I was not there." "Young man," said the magistrate, turning to the stricken Arthur, "what have you got to say for yourself?" "If you please, sir, if you please," he faltered, with trembling lips, "I want to go home. Do let me. I know nothing about anything. I was sitting quietly in my scat on the train when a crazy woman yelled at me, and then they all rushed for me, and some one pulled a purse from my pocket, and thf:n this officer threw me about the street as if I were a sponge on a string. Look at my new clothes, sirl And I'm sore all over." " 'Tis a loy, sor. He was tryin' to escape. I mak' the charge agin' him, sor." "Let mo see that purse." Policeman X handed this corpus delicti to the magistrate. He opened it. "Why, there's nothing in it!" he exolaimprl. ir. disannointed tones. Bat hold! In the innermost compartment he found a roll of paper. He unfolded it, and read aloud as follows : "To Whom It May Concern: This young man is not a thief, he's a hog. He did not take the purse, he took a seat and kept it. He was thus guilty of rudeness and lack of consideration toward frail womankind. I ha--e punished him for it as I shall punish others. Hereafter I trust that this experience will teach him that to a true man every woman is a lady, and entitled to his chivalric service. Place aux dames! "(Signed) The Avenger of Her Sex." "You are discharged, sir," said the magistrate to Arthur. "But let this bo a warning to''you." And his feet resumed their extra judicial position upon the desk. From that day Arthur Chumpney was a changed man. Ho was scrupulously polite to wan women with babies and eknmlflt Vin YlTOO r*V\Q*?n 111 miQ tf\ fpmftlfifl rtf ***??.? to, gaunt visage and long hands. He seldom rides on elevated trains. When he does, like a traveled trunk, he uses a strap. As he says himself, standing is good enough for him every time.?Frank Leslie's. Making Sure of Her Epitaph. "An interesting experience of mine," 9aid a dealer in monuments to a New York Tribune reporter, "was connected with a well-to-do elderly woman from Pennsylvania, who engaged me to put up a family monument containing an extraordinary number of inscriptions. There were in all 2700 or 2800 words to bo inscribed. They filled two pages in the book I keep for that purpose,written in a fine hand. On reading it oyer I was greatly impressed by the extraordinary tributes paid to oue member of the family?her wonderful virtues, her great liberality, her zealous missionary labors, the good she had done in a thousand ways; and a little puzzled, too, to know to which one of the family all this re fcrred. It turned out that it was the old lady herself, who evidently wanted to make sure in advance of her epitaph. Well, I did the job all right; and what do you think? That woman, after all the account of her virtues and goodness, actually tried to beat me out of my bill. There is a law in Pennsylvania that in a case of this kind, after a monument ha3 been erected, there can be no legal claim made for payment. It is a queer law,and a very unjust one, but she tried to take advantage of it. I had to threaten her with arrest before she would pay. Of course she had the advantage of me. I couldn't have had her arrested, but I threatened and that brought her around: No, we don't have many bad bills in this business. Such debts people usually expect to pay, and they do so with reason\Trr ,11/1 o l-tnoinooa HULXS p(UUij^bUC39. iJXJ mm um u of between $40,000 and $50,000 last year, and only lost $15. That was not because we couldn't collect it, but because the employe who did collect it ran away with the money." A Fine Piece of Writing;. It is a favorite amusement of expert penmen to write a great number of words on a postal-card or a small piece of paper, and some wonderful feata are reccordedin this line. Other penmen have exhibited their skill by making curious designs in ink, and one of the most curiou3 is now shown in New York. It wa9 the work of a one-eyed man named David Davidson, who died twenty years ago. On a piece of parchment-likc paper, five feet wide and six feet five inches high, are written all the books of the Old Testament, forming the design of a window in King Solomon's temple. No lines are used. Written words form the whole design. The writing is very minute,Dut legible to the naked eye. Ink of three colors was used, but principally black ink. It is a very intricate piece of work, marvellous in its way, and mu3t have taken considerable time and patience. Each chapter and verse is numbered. The writing is not running script, but each letter is separate; nor are the letters much, if any larger than a thirty-second of an inch high.?yeio Tork Dispatch. Racing Carrier rigeoin. The Belgians and the Dutch have taken great pains to perfect the breed of carrier pigeons. Great matches are instituted, in which as tnanv as 100 birds compete. Favorite racing courses for these matches are between Paris and Antwerp, a distance of 180 miles, and from London to Liege, a distance of 300 miles. In a a great match in 1825 between Paris and Antwerp, ninety cairiers were flown by the Belgian Society of Amateurs, and the winner accomplished the distance in four hours and a half, the average rate of flight being forty miles an hour. A good carrier is expected to travel at a rate exceeding fifty miles an hour, and it is said that a strong bird can accomplish a flight of 600 miles in twelve hours.?London Til-Bits. ??-r i I EEV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Among the Bedouins." Text: "Forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness."?"Num. sc., 31. Night after night we have slept in tent in Palestine. There are large villages of Bedouins without a house, ana for three thousand vears the people of those places have lived in black tents, made out of dyed skins, and , when the winds and storms wore out and tore loose those coverings others of the same kind 1 took their places. Noah lived in a tent; Abraham in a tent. ] Jacob pitched his tent on the mountain. Isaac pitched his tent In the valley. Lot < pitched his tent toward Sodom. In a tent i the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general, to 1 the ground, first having given him sour milk 1 called "leben" as a soporific to make him J Bleep soundly, that being the effect of such i nutrition, as modern travelers can testify. ' The Syrian army in a tent. The ancient i battle shout was "To your tents, 0 Israel!" < Paul was a tent maker. Indeed, Isaiah,magnificently poetic, indicates that all the human race live under a blue tent when he says God "stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and i spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in,"and Hezekiah compares death to the striking of a I tent, saying, '\My age is removed from me i as a shepherd's tent" I In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear , something I never heard before and hope never to hear again. It is the voice of a hyena amid the rocks near by. When you j may have seen this monster putting his , month between the iron bars of a menagerie ] he is a captive, and he gives a humiliated \ and suppressedcry. But yonder in the mid- j night on a throne of rocks he has nothing to \ fear, and he utters himself in a loud, re-' sounding, terriffic, almost supernatural , sound, spatting up the darkness into a deeper midnight. It begins with a howl and ends with a sound something like a horse's whining. In the hyena's voice are defiance! and strength and bioodthirstiness and crunch' of broken bones and death. I am glad to say that for the most part Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The leopards, which Jeremiah says cannot change their spots, have all disappeared, and.' the lions that once were common all through' this land, and used by all the prophets for illustrations of cruelty and wrath, have re-' treated before the discharges of gunpowder,! of which they have an indescribable fear. But/ for the most part Palestine Is what it originally was. With the one exception of a wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and from Nazareth to Tiberias and from Ti- , berias to Damascns, that cne nerve of civili zation, the telegraphic wire (for we found ourselves only a few minutes off from Brooklyn and New York while standing by Lake Galilee), with that one exception Palestine j is just as it always was. Nothing surprised me so much as the per- , sistence of everything. A sheep or horse > falls dead, and though the sky may one minute before be clear of all wings in five minutes after the skies are black with eagles > I cawing, screaming, plunging, fighting for . rnnm r?nntor?Hincr for 1arcrp?f; mnr?iola nf t.tiA extinct quadruped. Ah, now I understand the force of Christ's illustration when He said: "Wheresoever the carcass is there will the eagles be gathered together." The longevity of those eagles is wonderful. They live fifty and sixty and sometimes a hundred years. Ah, that explains what David meant when he said: "Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." 1 saw & shepherd with the folds of his coat far bent outward, and I wonderod what was contained in that amplitude of ap-j parel, and I said to the dragoman: "What has that shepherd got under his coat?' And the dragoman said: "It is a very young lamb he is carrying; it is too young and too weak and too cold to keep up with the flock." At that moment I saw the lamb put its head out from the shepherd's bosom anal said: "There it is now. Isaiah's description of the tender' ness of God?he shall gather the lambs with bis arm and carry them in his bosom." Passing by a village home, in the Holy Land, about noon I saw a great crowd in and around a private house, and I said to the dragoman: "David, what is going on there?" I He said: "Somebody has recently died there, ! and their neighbors go in for several days ] after to sit down and weep with the be! reaved." There it is, I saia, the old scrip1 tural custom, "And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning tbeir brother." Early in the morning passing by a cemetery in the Holy Land I saw among the graves about fifty women dressed in black,and they were crying: "Oh, my child!" "Ob, my husband!" "Oh, my I father!" "Ob, my mother!" Our dragoman told us that every morning, very early for j three mornings alter a burial, the women go I to the sepuicher, ana alter mat every weeK | very early for a year. As I saw this group i : just after daybreak I said: "There it is agaiD, ' the same old custom referred to in Luke, the j evangelist, where he says, 'Certain women ' which were early in the sepulcher.'" But here we found ourselves at Jacob's , well, the most famous well in history, most | distinguished for two things, because it beI longed to the old patriarch after whom it ' ! was named, and for the wonderful things ! . which Christ said, seated cn this well curb, j to the Samaritan womail. We dismount < | from our horses in a drizzling rain, and our . J dragoman, climbing up to the well over : i the slippery stones, stumbles and frighti ens us all by nearly falling into it. I meas\ ured the well at the top and found it six feet ! from edge to edge. Some crass and weeds and thorny growttis overnang it. in one 1 place the roof is broken through. Large stones embank the wall on all sides. Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped ' them iD, and from the time they left his ! hand to the instant they clicked on the bottorn you could hear it was deep, though pot J as deep as once, for every day travelers are applying the same test, and though in the 1 time of Maundrell, the traveler,the well was j a hundred and sixty-five feet deep, now it is only seventv-five. So great is the curiosity 1 of the worfd to know about that well that j during the dry season a Captain Anderson 1 descended into this well, at one place the sides so close he had to put his hands over his 1 read in oraer to get tlirougo, and tnen h? fainted away and lay at the bottom of the , well as though dead, until hours after recov- 1 try be came to the surface. ( It is not like other wells digged down to a fountain tbat fills it, but a reservoir to catch ' the fallintr rains, and to that Christ refers when speaking to the Samaritan woman about . a spiritual supply He said He would, if asked, ] have given her "living water," that is, water J from a flowing spring in distinction from the 1 water of the well, which was rain water. But } why did Jacob make a reservoir there when 1 there ia plenty of water all around and * abundance of springs and fountains and seem- j ingly no need of that reservoir? Why did 1 Jacob go to the vast expense of boring and ' digging a well perhaps two hundred feet deep as llrst completed, when, by going a little way off, he could have water from other 3 fountains at little or no expense? Ah, Jacob 1 was wise. He wanted his own well. Quarrels * and wars might arise with other tribes and the supply of water- might be cut off, so the ij shovels and pickaxes and boring instruments were or.lered, and the well of nearly foar thousand years ago was sunk through the c solid rock. ? When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having r: his own well he taught us not to be unneces- 1 6arily dependent on others. Independence c of business character, independenco of moral T character, independence of leligious char- c acter. Have your own well of grace, your ? own well of courage, your own well of divine j" supply. If you are an invalid you have a T right to be dependent on others. But if God f has given you good health, common senso J and two eyes and two ears and two hands , and two feet, He equipped you for independ- . ence of all the universe except Himself. If Ha had meant you to be dependent on others ' you would have been built with a cord t around your waist to tie fast to somebody ? eise. XVo; you are built with common sense t to fashion your own opinions, with eyes to v find your own way, with ears to select your a own music, with hands to fight your own >, battles. There is only one being in the uni- I Terse whose adviccyou need and that is God. n Have your own well and the Lord will fill it. T"llor if. If fiao^ 1m nrV? f nrn linnrlrfl/l II of solid rock. Dig it with your pen, or dig d it with your yard stick, or dig it with your g nhovel, or di? it with vour Bible. b In my small way t never accomplished li anything for God or the church,or the world, y or my family, or myself, except in contradio * tion to human advice and in obedience to b divine counsel. God knows every thing, and a what is the use of going for advice to human is beings who know so little that no one but the h all seeing God can renliza how little it is? I a liunoosa that. wViati .lAPnh tuur&n tn Hint this X, well on which we are sitting this noonti people gathered around and said, "What useless expense you are going to, when rc ing down from yonder Mount Gerizim a flown from yonder 'Mount Ebal and c yonder in the valley is plenty of watei liOh,' replied Jacob, "that is all true, b suppose my neighbors should get anger against me and cut off my supply of moui am beverage, what would 1 do, and wh would my family do. and v hat would e flocks and herds do? Forwa'd, ye brigade pickaxes and crowbars, and go down into t depths of these rocks and make me indepec ent of all except Him who fills the bottles the clouds! I must have my own well!" Young man, drop cigars and cigarett and wine cups and the Sunday excursioi and build vour own house, and have vo own wardrobe, and be vgnr own. cantf-olii "way, i nave omy nve hundred dollars 1 come a year P says some one. Then spet four hundred dollars of It in living, and t per cent, of it, or fifty dollars, in benov fence, and the other fifty in beginning dig your own well. Or if you have a tho sand dollars a year spend eight hundr dollars of it in living, ten per cent., or oi hundred dollars, in benevolence, and the r maining one hundred in beginning to dig yoi own well. The largest bird that ever fie thro jgh the.' air was hatched out of one eg and the greatest estate was brooded out Dne dollar. I suppose when Jacob began to dig ti well, on whose curb we are now seated tb December noon,it was a dry season then i now, and some one comes up and say "Now Jacob, suppose you get the well flf feet deep or two hundred feet deep and the should be .no water to fill it, weuld you B feel silly?" People passing'along the roi and looking down from Mount Gerlzim < Mount Ebal near by would laugh and sa "That is Jacob's well, a great nolo in tl rock, illustrating the man's folly." Jac< replied: "There never has been a well Palestine or any other country that on thoroughly dug was not sooner or later fill< From the clouds, and this mil be no exce fcion." For months after Jacob had completed tl well people went by, and out of respect f the deluded old man put their hand or their mouth to hide a snicker, and the wi remained as dry as the bottom of a ketl that had been hanging over the fire for thr hours. Eut one aav the sun was drawii water, and the wind got round to the ea ind it began to drizzle, and then great dro splashed all over the well curD, and t heavens opened their reservoir and the rail season poured its floods for six weeks, a: there came maidens to the well with emul palls and carried them away full, and ? camels thrust their mouths into the trouz md were satisfied, and the water was in tl well three feet deep, and fifty feet deep, ai two hundred feet deep, and all the Beaoui Df the neighborhood and all the passeral realized that Jacob was wise in having 1 awn well. My hearer, it is your part to d four own well, and it is God's part to fill; You do vour nart and He will do His oart. Much is said about "good luck." but pf pie who are industrious and self denying i most always have good luck. Tou can ( ford to be laughed at because of your app nation and economy, for when you get yoi tvell dug and filled it will be your turn laugh. But look up from this famoui well ai ;ee two mountains and the plain betwa them, on which was gathered the large religious audience that ever assembled < sarth, about five hundred thousand peopl Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred ie ligb, on one side, and on the other Mou Ebal, the former called the Mount of Ble jig and the latter called the Mount Parsing. At Joshua's command six trib itoad on Mount Gerizim and read t DlessLngs for keeping the law, and e tribes stood on Mount Ebal reading tl :urses lor brea Icing the law, while the fl lundred thousand people on the plain crii A.men with an emphasis that must ha nado the earth tremble. "I do not belie ;hat," Bays some one, "for those mounta ?ps are two miles apart, and how could roice be heard from top to top?' My answ sthat while the tops are two miles apai ;he bases of the mountains are only half nile apart, and the tribes stood on tHe sid )? the mountains, and the air is so clear ai ;he acoustic qualities of this great natur imphi theatre so perfect that voices can 1 listinctly heard from mountain to moun lin, as has been demonstrated by traVele Ifty times in the last fifty years. Can you imagine anything more thrillii rnd sublime and overwhelming than wh xanspirea on inose iwo mountain, siues, ui n the plain between, when the responsi' lervice went on and thousands of voices < Mount Gerizim cried, "Blessed shalt thou 1 n the city, and blessed shalt thou be in tl lelda, blessed shall be thy basket and tl itore," and then from Mount Ebal, thousan it voices responded, crying: "Cursed be 1 ;hat removeth his neighbor's landmar Dursed be he that maketb the blind to wa ler out of the way," and then there rolled \ from all the spaces between the mountai that one word with which the devout of ear :lose their prayers and the glorified of heavi finish their doxologies, "Amen! Amen!" that scene only to be surpassed by t times which are coming, whan the church md the academies of music and the au< toriums of earth, no longer large enough hold the worshipers of God; the parks, t mountain sides, the great natural amphith atresof the valleys, shall be filled with t! outpouring populations of the earth a mountain shall reply to mountain, as Mou Grerizim to Mount Ebal, and all the peop between shall ascribe riches and honor ai glory and dominion and victory to God t Lamb, and there shall arise an amen like t! booming of the heavens mingling with t thunder of the seas. On and on we ride, until now we ha fA UKiloK o wtv r?r* n Villi ei rounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive garde and vineyards. Here good Eli fell backwa and broke his neck, and lay dead at the nei from his bad boys, Phineas andHophni; ai life is not worth living after one's childr have turned out badly, and more fortuna was Eli, instantly expiring under such ti ings, than those parents who, their childr recreant and profligate, live on with brok hearts to see them going down into deep and deeper plunge. There are fathers ai mothers nere to-day to whom death would! happy release because of their recreant 901 Ana if there be recreant sons here preset and your parents be far away, why not be four head in repentance, and at the close this service go to the telegraph office and p it on the wing of the lightning that you hai turned from your evil ways? Before anoth twenty-four hours have passed take your fe )ff the sad hearts of the old homestea Home to thy God, 0 prodigal! Many, many letters do I get in purport sa ng: My son is in your cities; we have n leard from him for some time; we fear som ;hing is wrong; hunt him up and say a go< (vord to him;his mother is almost crazy abo lim; he is a child of many prayers. But he :an I hunt him up unless he be in this auc jnce? Where are you, my boy? On the ma loor, or on this platform, or in these box< >r in these great galleries? Where are yo Lift your right hand. I have a message fro lome. Your father is anxious about yo rour mother is praying for you. Your G< s calling for you. Or will you wait until I alls back lifeless, and the heart against whii Ton l*v in infanov ceases to beat? What itory to tell in eternity that you killed he kly God! Avert that catastrophe! uuc X turn from this Shiloh of Eli's sui len decease under bad news from his bo] md find close by what is called the "Meado" >f the Feast." While this ancient city wj n the height of its prosperity on this "Me: low of the Feast" there was an annual bal phere the maidens of the city amid clappin ymbals and a blare of trumpets danced i ;lee, upon which thousands of spectator ;azed. But no dance since the world stood ev< iroke up in such a strange way as the one th Jible describes. One night while by tfc ight of the lamps and torches these gayietit rent on, two hundred Benjamites. who ha ieen hidden behind the rocks aud among th rees, dashed upon the scene. They cam iot to injure or destroy, but wishing to se ip household of their ov,n, tho women c heir own land having been slaiu in battli >y preconcerted arrangement each one of th jvo hundred Benjamites seized the on rhom he chose for the queen of his hom ,nd carried her away to large estate an ieautiful residence, for these two himrire ienjamites had inherited the wealth of j ation. As to-day near Sbiloh we look at th 'Meadow of the Feast," where the maiden anced that night, and at the mountai orge up which the Benjamites carried thei rides, we bethink ourselves of the"bette md and the better times in which we liv< i'hen such scenes are an impossibility, an mid orderly groups and with prayer an enediction, and breath of orange blossom; nd the roll of the wedding march, marriag i solemnized and with oath recorded i eaven, two immortals start arm in arm o journey to last until death do them pari Jbou every such marriace altar may ther kL.: : v .jz- ' ide come the blessing of Him "who setteth thi a solitary in families!" Side by side on th< ill- path of life! Side by side in their graves nd Side by side in heaven! nit But we must this afternoon, our last da] rP' before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent ot iut the moat famous battlefield of all time?th< ed plain of Esdraelon. What must have been th< it- feelings of the Prince of Peace as He crossec lat it on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth or Not a flower blooms there but has in its veini . the inherited blood of flowers that drank th< blood of fallen armies. Hardly a foot ol k0 ground that has not at some time been gut ld" lied with war chariots or trampled with the ?* hoofs of cavalry. it is a plain reachingfrom the Mediter 89 ranean to the Jordan. Upon it look dowr is, the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and Carmel. Through its rages at certain seasons q' the river Kishon, which swept down the id armies of Sisera, the battle occurring in No en vember when there is almost always a shower u- ui iuBteorsjSo mat ine a tars in tneir courses to were said to have fought against Sisera u- Through this plain drove Jehu, and the iroi ed chariots of the Canaanites, scythed at thi ae hubs of the wheels, hewing down their awfu e- swathes of death, thousands in a minute ur The Syiian armies, the Turkish armies, thi w Egyptian armies again and again tramplet & it. There they career across it. David anc Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Cceur di Lion and Baldwin and Saladin?a plain no lis oniy famous for the past, but famous becaus lis tie Bible says the great decisive battle of thi 13 world will lie fought there?the battle of Ar "I?* mazed don. 7 To me the plain was the more absorbing r? because of the deoperata battles bare and ii ot regions round m which the holy cross?th? id very two pieces of wood on which Jesus wai or supposed to have been crucified?was carriec y. as a standard at the head of the Christian be host, and that night closing my eyes in mj 3b tent on the plain of Esdraelon?for ther< in are some things we can see better with eyes co shut than open?the scenes of that ancient ed war come before me. The twelfth centurj p. was closing and Saladin at the head of eighty thousand mounted troops was crying: "Ho tie for Jerusalem 1" "Ho 1 for all Palestine P anc or before them everything went down, but noi w f iinnatM>11alA/1 ?Aaie4fl*iAA Tvw gr nivuuuv UWMU* buwiou imowuiuo* ui UUl ell place one hundred and thirty Christian.' ;ie were surrounded by many thousands of furi ee oua Mohammedans. For one whole day the !g one hundred and thirty held out againsi at these thousands. Tennyson's "six hundred,' pa when "some one had blundered," wer< ha eclipsed by these one hundred and thirtj iy fighting for the holy cross. They took hold ad of the lances which had pierced them witt :y death wounds, and pulling tfaem out of theii jj0 own breasts and sides hurled them back agair 1j8 at the enemy. ie On went the fight until all but one Chris j(j tlan had fallen and he, mounted on the lasi og horso, wielded his battle az right and left til his horse fell under the plunge of the jave llg lins, and the rider, making the sign of the ig cross toward the sky, gave up his life on th< point ot a score of spears. But soon after th< last battle came. History portrays it, poetn kj. chants it, painting colors it, ana all ages ad mire that last struggle to keep in possessor if. the wooden cross on which Jesus was said tc jj. have expired. It was a battle in which min ur gled the fury of devils and the grandeur ol to angels. Thousands of dead Christians or this side. Thousands of dead Mohammedan: on the other side. The battle was hot BQ test close around the wooden cross upheld bj the bishop of Ptolemais, himself woundeo on and dying. And when the bishop of Ptolle omnia dropped dead, the bishop of Lydds 0t seized the cross and again lifted it, carrying nt it onward into a wilder and fiercer fight, anc js. sword against javelin, and battle ax upor helmet, and niercin? snear arainst snlintor e3 ing shield. 'Horses and men tumbled intc he heterogeneous death. Now the woodec ix cross on which the armies of Christiana hof tj9 kept their eye begins to waver, begins tc rs descend. It falls! and the wailing of the ad Christian host at its disappearance drowni re the huzza of the victorious Moslems, re But that standard of the cross only seemed in to fall. It rides the sky to-day in triumph a Five hundred million souls, the mightiesl er army of the ages, are following It, and where t, that goes they will go, across the earth anc a up the mighty steeps of the heavens. In th< us twelfth century it seeined to go down, but ii id the nineteenth century it is the mightiest al - symbol of glory and triumph, and meant be more than any other standard, whether in t- scribed with eagle, or lion, or bear, or star, rs or crescent. That which Saladin trampled on the plain of Esdraelon I lift to day foi ig your marshaling. The cross I The cross at The foot of it planted In the earth It saves, id the top of it pointing to the heavens to whicf ire it will take you, and the outspread beams ol in it like outstretched arms of invitation to al be nations. Kneel at its foot. Lift your eyi be to its victim. Swear eternal allegiance tc ly its power. And as that mighty symbol ol ris pain and triumph is kept beiore us, we will lie realize how insignificant are the little crosse! k! we are called to bear, and will more cheern fully carry them. ip Hast Jesns bear the cross alone, ns 4nd the world go free? th No, there's a cross for every one, en And there's a cross for me. ? As I fall asleep to-night on my pQlew in thi he tent on the plain of Esdraelon reaching front es mo moorterranean to tne ?roraan, tae water! ii. of the river Kishon soothing me as by a luV to laby, I hear the gathering of the hosts for th< he last battle of all the earth. And bv theii lo- representatives America is here and Europe he is here and Asia is here and Africa is here, ad and all heaven is here and all hell is herei nt and Apollyon on the black horse leads the )1q armies of darkness, and Jesus on the whit< 1(i horse leads the armies of light, and I heai he the roll of the drums and the clear call of th< he clarions and the thunder of the cannonades, he And then I bear the wild rush as of miilioi of troops in retreat, and then the shout ol v0 victory as from fourteen hundred million ir. throats, and then a song as though all th< qs armies of earth and heaven were joining it rd clapping cymbals, beating the time?'\Th< P7S kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and Hi Bn shall reizu for ever and ever." .te d- We read that a rrenenman has man en ufactured a kind of bisouit containinj all tlie ingredients necessary to sup id port human life. "Portable food tab be lets," we understand is the name of tb new product. Armed with this compac >w and convenient form of victuals, equall; ?j good, be it remembered, for breakfast Tt luncheon, dinner, supper, or any hj er brid meal, one can set off on long ex cursions with a security that he neve had before. A young fellow with i y- stout pair of legs under him would bi ?j able to spend whole days traversing thi 3d hills, for example, without being com ut pelled to seek an indigestible meal ir some low-lying tavern. It if notorious ir that people out driving in the countrj always have to turn around and go home ra for an early dinner. The "food tablets" u, will change that. Every well-appoint2J ed rural vehicle will hereafter contain :b a small tin box of this new human provender, whioh?together with a fev r oats for the horses?will annihilate time and space, and put back the hands oi 7a the clock from middav to morniner. {V is Although the following Is from on< j* of Sam Jones' recent sermons the Nev g York Tribune almost feels that w< w -Li. i.~ nnnlinrr if. " OUgLll> llU apuiujjl/.o iV/i. ,r "Some ladies think they must keej ie a little whisky to make camphire etc., but what are you going to d< '1 when you wnke up in hell fire, old gal' 10 I tell you, dudes and dudines, if yon come fooling about me I'll spit on yoi >f and drown you, you are so insignificant, ?? "We don't bury dudes. They haven't 3 got smell enough after they are dead o to annoy any one, and we just hanj ^ them on a limb." a 1 Last year Philadelphia built 11,904 0 houses averaging in cost $2,172 each, n In the samo time New York built 0,722 r houses, tbe average cost of which was f $11,293 each; Chicago, 4-,931, averaging $5,083; .Brooklyn, 4,500, averaging $5,d 700; Boston, 4,431, averaging $7,312; ^ Minneapolis, 4,355, averaging $2,006; n Washington, 4,048, averaging $1,523; ? Denver, 2,741, averaging $3,942; a Omaha, 2,498, averaging $1,083, 1 : I A QBEAT MOTE. Southern Inter-State Immigration Convention at Asheviile, N. C. ' Tbe great Southern Inter-State Tmmigra- , tion Convention is to assemble in the city of v. Asheviile, N. C.. on the 17th of December. It is no ordinary gathering, but is composed of * 3 commissioned delegates from every State in the South, chosen as follows: Four from the State at large and two from each State Senatorial District, by the Governor; two from each county, chosen by the County Commissioners; one from each corporate city, chosen by the Mayor' one from each Cham* i ber of Commerce or Board of Trade, chosen ?y the presiding officers; two delegates j from each editorial association, chosen by J the President of the association; one dele- j gate from each railway or steamboat company, chosen by the General Passenger Agent; one delegate from each, land company, chosen by the Manager or presiding officer of tiie company. ! The convention in Asheviile, N. C., on tha 17th of December, is not an experiment. It is not the start, and the entire people are interested in the great move on the part of mora than a dozen States. Wa give a brief <g outline of the movement: The Southern Inter-States Immigration " Bureau was created by the Southern Inter- '* States Immigration Convention, held in ths city of Montgomery, Ala., December 12th, 188?. This convention composed of dele- a gates, appointed by the (Governors, municipal 1 authorities, Boards of Trade, and railway |j corporations; the State Commissioners of Immigration were ex-officio delegates. The movement had the hearty endorse- ? ment of ail the chief executives, Commissioners of Agriculture and Immigration of the several States interested. Mr. F. B. Stahlman, of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in addressing the convention, made a ringing speech endorsing the movement, and assured the convention that the railroads would meet the people half-way in this matter. Not only were the objects of the convention approved by the leading newspapers throughout the country in advance, but the plan and scope of the work were endorsed by them without exception. The plans proposed by the committee on, ' permanent organization, which were unanl< mously adopted, were as follows: - 3 x our committee selected ior tne purpose ' 4 r of drafting a plan of organization looking to -a I the formation of a permanent Southern In- .1 l ter-State Immigration Bureau for the par- 1 pose of securing added population and capi- 1 i tal for the Southern States and Territorial, securing uniform freight and immigration ?yS rates, the opening of a general office and the < t establishment of such other office andagen1 cies, the arranging of fairs and expositions, - establishing ports of entry and the doing of f> all other things necessary for the develop- 7 } ment of every State and Territory embraced - ''* J in the call of this convention, beg to submit ) > r their report as follows, ana reoom mend that there be, selected an Exec ? utive Committee to consist of a mem? ber from each State and Territory; - that said Executive Committee shall select . . ' a General Manager and that said Executive i Committee and Qen4tal Manager shall coni stitute the Southern Inter-State Immigra tion Bureau. Your committee furthermore % ' suggests that all matters p?rtaining to the I conduct of this Inter-State Bureau shall be left solely with the bureau, there being no i question of State interest involved since each [ State will be represented by one of her most I able and representative men In the formai tion of the Executive Committee." To Hon. P. B. Chilton, of Austin, Texas, 4 > who was at that time Commissioner of Im1 migration for thi Lone Star State, is due the l credit of potting; the tiling into working v > shape. For it was his work anil bis means > that aroused the people to their duty sod i caused them to meet in convention. Since that time Mr. Chilton has resigned his work L for the State of Texas and given his time to the stupendous undertaking of organizing 5 the workingmen of the Southern States into ? one great body for the upbuilding of their I material interests. 1 A BOTTEH BRIDGE. I A Train Makes an Awful Plunge, j Killing Ten Men. r A roi ten bridge at the mouth of the Kaw ^ 1 River. Kansas City, Mo., brought swift d?-~-^ i struction to a freight train on the Kanmu ' 39 rihi XCtTan^i-iffa on-? TC/vrMncnstorn nva/f aft \ - twsnty-three minutes past six o'clock on a ' recent morning, and caused the death and J ' | serious injury of many men. [ Th9 killed are: Fred. Alien, Fred. Bell, 1 Edward Burke, David Brown, Henry Cole- . J man, WilL Crawford, Ralph Fay, Ellis 'S Moon, Frank Wail, Henry Williams. Six other passengers were desperately injured. As the train reached the bridge the packing house whistles were blowing for the be- ; ginning of the day's work and many of the | employes of those institutions took advantage J of the passing train to get a free ride across the river to their place of work. ' The cars passed the first span and were ; just entering the second when there was an . awful crash which was heard for a mile, and instantly fire sprang from the submerged 1 train and attracted people by the hundreds ' to the aid of the unfortunates. j The engine, tender and five freight cars . went to the bottom, and then came the caboose, which stood upon the whole wreck, and from the stove, which was overturned, "" ' the fire started which soon destroyed all that . appeared above the water. Engineer Patch and Fireman Allen jumped , for tneir lives together as the train went down, and as the engineer rose he felt the I grasp of his companion on his legs holding Rim back. Allen had been pinnea down by | the wreckage and his awful struggle for life came near sacrificing his friend. By desperate efforts Patch succeeded in kicking himself loose and came to the surface terribly injured, but alive. The rest of ? the train crew were saved, but many of the i. luckless passengers who were stealing a ride across the river went down. Henry Williams, a colored bo/ who was 9 an employe in the Armour packing house, t was caught by the wreck ana neia jus? under the water, his /ace not being mora Y than two inches from the surface, and in this position he drowned in sight of those j who were powerless to aid. .i r BLOWN INTO ETERNITY. 1 Three Men Killed and Four Injured ^ by Exploding Dynamite. Three human l'ves went out of existence in moment at Lima, Ohio, and four were severely injured, by an explosion of twenty\ 6 ve pounds of dynarni te and the same amount of giant powder. The terrible fatality oc> curred at Custer's stone quarry, in the south-. ' west part of the town, about 8 o'clock in the morning. The explosive was stored in a small shed i on the ledge above the quarry and two men were within thawing out dynamite cart- . ridges. A third was approaching the shed ' ' when the explosion occurred and the I three were blown a hundred feet i into the *air, falling headiest and limbless 150 feet from the scene. The air and trees were filled with flying debris^ and only a big hole marks where the shanty 5 stood. Several of the men and some horses j working in the pit were struck by the falling debris and badly injured. The killed are: 5 George Fisher, married; leaves a widow ay-iA fmir f>hilflrsn living sir miles A&st of j town. Henry Weiskopf, married; leaves a widow ? and two children, living at the same place. ) Charles Burkett, single; iiia hoo. is in j Honduras, Ind. 1 A SHIP CAPSIZED. J > Men and Animals Drowned Off the ; Dalmatian Coast. ^ A ship having on board a party of labois ' era and a large number of animals en route for the Island of Brazza, where they were to be employed in the olive harvests, were capsized off the Dalmatian coast by a sudden, liWivy gusb ui muu, _ | All on board were thrown into the sea,and fl the capsized vessel was surrounded by a strug- ^ gling mass of men and animals. A number ' I of boats put out from the shore and succeeded in rescuing thirteen human beings and thirtyfour aninals. Thirty-eight persons and 100 ' animals perished. ; Tt is estimated that the potato crop of ' Prince Edward Island will this year aggre1 gate 10.000,000 bushels. Potatoes are now selling there at eighteen cents per bushel^ ,